Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun pl] [subord] it [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Government should halt the issue of licences to build further gas-powered stations until it has been demonstrated that they do produce cheaper electricity . |
| 2 | Its contents are hard to classify , and its quality is hard to define : it is a good-bad play , which does not stand up to examination once it is over but provides some striking effects while it lasts . |
| 3 | The time limit can be extended by a further six months if it appears to be ‘ just and equitable ’ to do so . |
| 4 | It was meant to compliment the wisteria , planted four years ago , but Claudia is resigned to the fact it might be still another six years before it puts on a show . |
| 5 | In all cases , the inner mental being of a creature is similar throughout its life cycle , though expressing itself through different outward physical forms as it metamorphoses . |
| 6 | The Red Poll 's greatest successes overseas are in Jamaica , Brazil and other Latin American countries where it has been instrumental in the creation of types bred for local conditions , such as the Jamaica Red , Pitangueiras ( Brazil ) , La Velasquez ( Colombia ) , Senepol ( US Virgin Islands ) and possibly the Romosinuano ( Colombia ) . |
| 7 | Shortens the route by some two miles though it involves going slightly higher than the main route . |
| 8 | At Abu Hamed the river turns back on itself and runs south-west for some 200 miles before it turns again and reasserts its northerly course . |
| 9 | Erm they would n't grow , they ca n't grow grain or use two or three times in succession , but then for that another seven years because it takes so much goodness out the erm thing , there 's so many diseases and they got to change their crop after a while |
| 10 | Although Next Computer Inc has stumbled , Data General Corp , which last year signed to resell Next boxes , will maintain a relationship with Steve Jobs ' firm — it says it was always more interested in the NextStep software anyway , and will market the environment on its OEMed 80486 personal computers once it becomes available . |
| 11 | The firm says it is able to offer Sun compatible boxes at such low prices because it buys components as a group and sells through catalogues in Germany , Netherlands , UK , Austria , Switzerland and France . |
| 12 | The company says it is able to offer Sun-compatible boxes at such low prices because it buys components as a group and sells through catalogues in Germany , the Netherlands , the UK , Austria , Switzerland and France . |
| 13 | A working class individual and a middle class individual may have similar political demands when it comes to , say , local educational and welfare facilities , local job opportunities and protection of house prices . |
| 14 | The Proprietor shall not be liable for any such withholding taxes if it has been complied with the relevant tax exemption requirements and has delivered tot he Publisher an exemption certificate or other proof of such exemption satisfactory to the taxing authorities . |
| 15 | The board is also empowered to hold such other meetings as it considers appropriate . |
| 16 | This links itself to the three previous parts because it displays a process which metaphorically or symbolically represents change . |
| 17 | A HIGH-TECH electronics firm has more than doubled interim pre-tax profits as it expands its world-wide operation , it was revealed yesterday . |
| 18 | Unfortunately the island parable raises at least as many additional questions as it answers . |
| 19 | Government compounds all these problems when it sets down working parameters which fail to reflect the value the country gets from a system that is run efficiently , can shift people to destinations with exemplary speed and safety — as Europe consistently demonstrates . |
| 20 | From the point of view of the resources crisis , this looks like a reasonably rational response : because there are so many more ‘ run of the mill ’ than ‘ serious ’ offenders , a bifurcated policy should save many more resources than it costs . |
| 21 | This passage raises a good many more questions than it answers . |
| 22 | From this false start , their marriage had many more vicissitudes until it has now reached a point where there now exists between them a thinly disguised mutual antipathy . |
| 23 | ‘ We judge our support on the basis of the MPs we talk to , lists that are drawn up , early day motions that are signed , ’ says Robertson , who believes he can count on the public support of maybe seventy Conservative MPs if it comes to a confrontation with John Major . |
| 24 | Komsomolskaya Pravda , which has emerged as the most informative of all Soviet newspapers because it runs articles others refuse to print , depends on the Pravda printing house , which is owned by the party . |
| 25 | The Law Commission has now proposed the abolition of the marital-rape exemption , bringing English law into accord with the many other jurisdictions where it does constitute rape for a husband to have non-consensual sexual intercourse with his wife . |
| 26 | The potential for a reader 's motivation , involvement , and reward can be seen in books like Raymond Briggs ' The snowman ( with its many tell-tale gaps since it has no text ) and Susan Cooper 's The dark is rising novels . |
| 27 | That 's why I was tempted to have those Staybrite windows cos it repels all that . |
| 28 | In some ways , a comparison between Nissan and Toyota in America and Nissan in Britain reveals as much about those two countries as it does about the firms . |
| 29 | I am the first person to admit that success is not that frequent at Athletico and on those rare occasions when it comes we are always left with a nasty aftertaste to spoil it . |
| 30 | A single budded standard , or a double where one has failed , can look distinctly lop-sided for the first few years until it has had time to develop — this is the sort of stuff you have to watch out for in the cheap ‘ end of season nursery clearance sales ’ and street markets . |